Remote Solution Manager - Bids & Gov't Contracts

Serco Limited; Hart; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Pension scheme

Discounts and employee perks

Health and wellbeing programs

Job summary

Serco Limited is seeking a talented Solution Manager to design end-to-end solutions for bids across a government-focused portfolio. The role involves shaping commercially viable propositions, balancing user needs with costed, deliverable outcomes, and collaborating with bid directors and finance teams.

You will travel weekly to Serco sites while working from home, contributing to risk planning, write-ups, and transition handovers as bids progress toward award and implementation.

Qualifications

• Strong presentation and negotiation skills.
• Clear, confident written communication, able to explain complex ideas simply.
• Experience working effectively in multiple, fast-paced environments.
• Ability to quickly understand large volumes of information and data.
• Some operational experience (e.g. people management or data-informed decision making).
• Some analytical capability.
• Some stakeholder management.
• Some commercial judgement and financial understanding.
• Some knowledge of UK Government market and competitive landscape.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the design and development of end-to-end solutions or solution components for bids
• Building a strong understanding of the customer, market and opportunity landscape
• Reviewing existing services and identifying synergies, efficiencies and improvements
• Collaborating with subject matter experts, operational colleagues and finance teams to design costed, deliverable solutions
• Supporting risk identification, mitigation planning and contribution to risk registers
• Working closely with technical leads to shape appropriate systems and ICT solutions
• Contributing to compelling written bid responses in partnership with bid writers
• Supporting effective handover to transition teams for implementation
• Engaging proactively with customers (as required) to refine requirements and validate solution approaches
• Supporting internal benchmarking, continuous improvement and contract optimisation initiatives

Skills

Presentation skills

Negotiation

Written communication

Fast-paced environments

Data interpretation

Operational experience

Analytical capability

Stakeholder management

Commercial judgement

UK government knowledge

Job description

Serco Limited is seeking a talented Solution Manager to design end-to-end solutions for bids across a government-focused portfolio. The role involves shaping commercially viable propositions, balancing user needs with costed, deliverable outcomes, and collaborating with bid directors and finance teams.

You will travel weekly to Serco sites while working from home, contributing to risk planning, write-ups, and transition handovers as bids progress toward award and implementation.